Learning Android™ Application Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Android Applications

Summary

You can let users take photographs using your application and share them via the social network of their choice. You have several options for integrating the camera on the Android device into your app. For example, you can create an image capture intent and launch the default camera activity. This requires much less code than directly integrating the device camera.

By using the APIs of the Camera class, you can integrate the entire photo-taking process, from preview to editing, inside your app. You can also create a chooser UI control so that users can select any social networking app installed on their Android device. You can also use the share class to share both text and images so that your application will be built for the ages. ...